Modling the Relationship Between the Effect of Mental-Spirtual Transformation and Social Support on Marital Happiness Considering the Mediating Role of Emotional Regulation in Parents

The aim of this study was to design and test the pattern of the effect of mental-spirtual transformation and social support on marital happiness considering the mediating role of emotional regulation in parents of exceptional children. In this descriptive-correlational study, all the parents of exceptional children of Khuzestan privince in year 2019 constituted the research population. From this population, 234 people were selected through convenience sampling method. In this study, mental-spirtual transformation, social support, marital happiness and emotional regulation were used for data collection in this study. The proposed model was evaluated using a path analysis method. Bootstrap test was used to test the indirect relationships. The results of this study showed that all direct paths social support with marital happiness were significant. Indirect pathways were also significant through emotional regulation with marital happiness. The proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the result and an important step in recognizing the effective factors in the marital happiness of parents of exceptional children and can be useful as a model for designing and stress management programs and increased marital happiness for this parents.